Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose

Life always is now, but the form the now takes changes continuously. Most people equate the form the now takes with the now itself, and so they believe there are many different moments.

The most rigid structures, the most impervious to change, will collapse first.

Awareness takes over from thinking. Instead of being in charge of your life, thinking becomes the servant of awareness.

This is why very often you find educated people in the media who look at spiritual books but they are so identified with their thought process, they don't get it. They write reviews or articles and they miss the whole point. They can't see the essence. It's not their fault; it's not them personally. It's the human condition and its mind-identified state. And intelligence in itself doesn't help. You can have two or three Ph.D.s; it doesn't get you any closer to spiritual realization. In fact, you might be more distant.

When you recognize this, you also realize that you are now free to give up this futile conflict, this inner state of war.

People had been writing to me and saying, "Can you write something for children?" I felt I couldn't quite do it myself because I never had children.